This will be the first of many blog postings on this new MSDN blog site. I'll start off with a bunch of BizTalk, SQL, and .NET stuff. I have no idea where it will go from there, but I'll try to practice all of my lessons learned from my previous blog...

Back on the old blog, I posted about creating web services for BizTalk that accepted generic XML. In one of my current projects, a similar scenario came up. We have a WSDL that we must conform to, but wanted to accept generic content and validate AFTER...

A flat file schema can be configured to generate empty elements for empty content – using the “Generate Empty Nodes” option. It seems that at runtime, the flat file dissasembler can generate “<foo></foo>” for...

A flat file schema can be configured to generate empty elements for empty content – using the “Generate Empty Nodes” option. It seems that at runtime, the flat file dissasembler can generate “<foo></foo>” for...

This past weekend our company did it’s first significant BizTalk application deployment into a production environment. I encountered a few issues along the way, and I thought I’d list the problem and resolution. In order of annoyance to me...

My latest Service Station column is now online -- it's called WCF Bindings In-Depth . It starts out by reviewing the WCF binding architecture, the various built-in binding classes and how to configure them. Then it shows you how to define custom bindings...

Currently I'm setting up a system and found an interesting 'challenge'. After some sweat and tears I stumbled upon this Microsoft article. In the article it appears that running IIS 6.0 on a 64-bit box is cool. (obviously or there'd be trouble) It's also...

I had a great time time at the Auckland Web Meetup last week, I have been skimming through the comments ... the fact that 120 people came along was really quite impressive. The day of my presentation I thought hard about whether to do any slides or just...

This sample relates to this post . Note single clicking this one toggles between fullscreen mode so you will just need to be patient if the stream buffers function CreateSilverlight(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source: "streaming:/15799/gears...

Sensational Sonu has a great article on her blog about how we develop custom WCF Adapters for use with BizTalk R2. She mentions: 1. BizTalk will always call the Adapter custom channel via a 'Request/Response' mechanism - this means for: Custom WCF Send...

I'm pretty excited about this one! BI - Business Intelligence. It usually comes up towards the end of my project (especially BizTalk ones), what do we now do with our information within our SQL Cubes?? I find that the subject of BI is never properly addressed...

I'm working on a document which will eventually be published here on best practices for BizTalk development. What practices do you insist on in your project? Naming? I generally use Scott Colestock's guidelines for this. Backdoor Receive Locations? Any...

Some of the team ( Darryl , Sean , Frank ) have all blogged about http://BackgroundMotion.com launching today. I have spent some time this afternoon taking it for a drive and pushing some feedback to the guys to improve some little niggles that are still...